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TEACHERSTAirMTdH CASH FOR PENSIONS
BUT DON'T GET WHAT THEY PAID FOR
school board may see dramatic a'c-
tion. The pension injustice is being
looked into by all the trustees. Some
trustees who have been hostile to the
Teachers Federation are reportd to
Isaac T. Greenacre, attorney for
the Teachers' Federation, raises a
big point in an opinion on the right
of teachers to pensions. All the
teachers in the public schools pay
part of their salaries every month
into a pension fund. Some of the 42
teachers' marked "superior, "effi
cient" and "good," who were thrown
off the list of teachers recommended
June 27, have been teaching more
than 20 years and have been making
regular payments into ' a pension
fund ever since the pension law went
into effect.
Though these teachers have paid
hundreds of dollars into the pension
fund theywill not get one penny of
it in pension payments and every dol
lar they paid into the pension fund is
just so much money thrown away,
according to the opinion of Green
acre. By the operation of a joker in
Sec 157 of the pension law passed
three years ago any teacher dropped
by the school board thereby loses all
claims to a pension, no matter how
many years she has been teaching.
"There is, an enormous amount of
detail in pension legislation and it
takes sharp eyes to watch all that is
going on," said ftliss Haley today.
"In this instance we thought this
particular joker had been taken care
of. We knew it was proposed for
passage, but were later assured, this
joker clause was omitted. We were
surprised to find on examination this
summer that it was still on the law
books of Illinois that a teacher who
has paid money year after year into
the pension fund can be summarily
robbed of all the savings represented
by those payments. No bank, no life
insurance company, no. business en
terprise of any sort would have the
face to tell its customers it would ap
ply such a- policy.
The Wednesday meeting of the
be changing their views on what
ought to be done, at this time. In or
der to destroy the Teachers' Federa
tion they don't wish at the same time
to choke off the pension rights of
teachers who don't belong to the
federation.
During the summer vacation the
membership of the federation has in
creased, it was" stated at new 13th
floor offices in the Unity bldg. The
reason given is that teachers feel
that the present domination of
teachers will get worse unless there
is some way to resist, anil this way
is through organization.
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SOCIALIST NOMINEE OUT' FOR
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GEORGE R.KHIKPATRKX
Kirkpatrick, of Newark, N. J., is
Socialist Candidate for vice presi
dent, and touring wesfero states,
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